Favorites

It’s time for another b5 Media Sports Channel Group Post! And the theme this week is favorites. Sure, this is probably not as interesting as John Gotti Jr’s latest dilemma, but I can honestly say it’s a good read!

Well since football season is right around the corner, I’ll talk about my favorite football team. You’d think that because I grew up in Buffalo, NY, I’d be a Bills fan through and through. Not so my friends. While I can appreciate my hometown football team and cheer them on because of loyalty, my favor lies with another … I’ve been a Kansas City Chiefs fan since I was 12 years old.

People always ask me why and I just don’t have a clear answer. It started with Nintendo I suppose and a little game called Tecmo Bowl that my twin brother and I used to play all the time. I would always be the Chiefs and he would always be the Falcons or the Bills. From then on I started watching and following the team diligently. I even put together a scrap book and knew more players on their roster than the average football fan. I could reel off stats from each season from 1992 all the way to 1997. I stopped the scrapbooking when I went off to college. And though I never followed the team as closely as I had throughout my middle and high school years, I still always tuned in for a game.

I remember when the Chiefs traveled to Buffalo to play in the 1993 AFC Championship game. I had saved up all of my paper route money to buy a Starter Chiefs jacket. My father had season tickets so naturally he took me to the game. Only, I wasn’t allowed to wear any Chief stuff. He thought I’d get heckled or worse, and who could blame him? Football fans can get rowdy. It was one of the most memorable games I had ever seen. And to see Joe Montana up close, well that was just a bonus. (Side note: I was a fan before the Joe Montana days at Kansas City as well as after he was gone, so I don’t want to hear “you just liked them because of him” …)

Though my team got pummeled in the game and that pretty much capped off their 90’s run, I never lost faith that someday the Chiefs would make it all the way back to the Superbowl. I have a goal to see at least one game in Arrowhead Stadium. And the Bills travel to play the Chiefs this November.

Who knows … maybe I’ll finally make the trip.

What’s your favorite football team and why?

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